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Ansel Elgort to portray pianist Van Cliburn in biopic

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Jun 23, 2014

Actor Ansel Elgort is to portray American pianist Van Cliburn in a new biopic. Van Cliburn will be based on the Howard Reich novel of the same name and will reunite Elgort with his The Fault in Our Stars producers Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen, according to Deadline.com.
Andrew Stern will write the script for the movie, which will focus on the musician's early years and the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition in Moscow, which he won in 1958.
Cliburn passed away of bone cancer last year (13).

Like Scarface and Honey Boo Boo, Hillary Clinton is a polarizing figure, which naturally makes her the perfect subject of a biographical feature film. If only there was such a script floating around, just waiting to be scooped up and produced... Oh wait! There is. Simply title Rodham, the film was written by Young Il Kim of South Korea. While no actors have been cast, the film has begun its pre-production tango with producers Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen, with James Ponsoldt signed on to direct. So this thing is happening.
But the film covers the life of Clinton in a, well, interesting way. The Daily Beast got their hands on what may or may not be a final draft of the screenplay, and it's completely insane. There's wild speculation on the relationship between Bill and Hillary, a harpy-esque Hillz stepping on the toes of justice, and, of course, the paintsuit origin story. Here are 10 details from the script which show why this gonzo tale will probably never get end up being made.
1. Bill Clinton's Boob Obession. Apparently Slick Willie mentions how the watermelons of Hope, Arkansas, are the "firmest, juiciest melons" he’s seen. And that's because Bill likes big boobs! Big, watermelon-shaped boobs. It's edgy because boobs.
2. The Blatant Hatred of Lady Equality. Hillary is called "the valedictorian of the 'look-like-shit school of feminism.'" You think Hillary's going to sign-off on such a whitewash of her character? The over-done joke is a real bore, my dears.
3. Because This: "It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'sex' means." — Oh, hey, look! An allusion to Bill's words during the Lewinsky scandal. Does this depend on what the definition of "trite" is?
4. Aforementioned Paintsuit Origin Story. John Doar, a former boss of Hillary's, suggests she lose her skirts in favor of the ever-so-practical pantsuit while working on the Nixon impeachment committee. It contains the line "From this day forward, she will always wear pantsuits." And so it was written into the Constitution.
5. There Are Saxophones. Bill plays Hillary both "Happy Birthday" and "Hail to the Chief" on the saxophone.
6. Hillary's Trucker Mouth. Hillary says at one point in the script: “I fuckin’ love you. I mean that. I love you, and I want to fuck you" to Bill. And apparently she often says "motherfuckin'," which just tickles Bill's bits.
7. Because of This Whole Scene: Bill Clinton’s mother, Virginia, does not like Hillary because she thinks that Hillary should be a pie-baking, sock-darning, seed-carrying accessory to her baby Bill. When she urges Hillary to wear something pretty to make her son happy, Hillary goes and puts on an old blue (!!) prom dress.
8. The Kooky Family Members. Shortly after the prom dress incident (which somehow didn't involve underage sex and an adult contemporary soundtrack form the 80s), Bill's half-brother Roger Clinton Jr., (18 at this point) asks a group of gathered folk, "Who do you think fucked more women? Bill or Hillary?” and all of Bill’s friends laugh and laugh and laugh. Roger is depicted as a stoner with a bong. Hey, at least some of this sounds true.
9. This Movie is Actually Just About Bill's Sexcapades. "Hillary bursts into Bill's office to complain of her treatment just as a 20-year-old giggling coed comes out. Bill explains that she’s a former student of his and the president of the Arkansas College Democrats. It's one of many references to Bill’s popularity with the ladies." Ladies Love Cool Bill.
10. All of the President Talk. Hillary's friend Betsey Wright at one point screams, "You can’t both be president!" Which is a line that will definitely be used in a trailer someday alongside a stoic-looking, determined face of a young Hillary Clinton. It almost sounds worth it! Ha, just kidding you guys.
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Entering the world of any Nicholas Sparks movie requires not only a solid gag reflex, but a complete abandonment of any sense of the actual world we live in. Yes, it's completely believable that two cookie-cutter attractive people would find each other, bur their glossy, white-washed existence where handwritten letters trump text messages, rowboats are a legitimate mode of transportation, and major life issues are conveniently solved, is as dated as it is utterly ridiculous.
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Still, even with the awareness that these are nothing more than implausible, overly sentimental, and more often times than not, downright boring love affairs, some of them have made for well-executed guilty pleasure tearjerkers. (See: The Notebook. Which, if you have ABC Family, you have three times this week).
Safe Haven, the latest big screen adaptation in the ever-churning Sparks wheelhouse, is not one of those movies. The M.O. is the same as all the others that have come before it: two very clean cut, J. Crew catalogue models (this time it's Josh Duhamel as Alex and Julianne Hough as Katie) make eyes at each other in a sleepy bay town, discover they both have tragic pasts (he, a widower learning to heal and raise his children, and she, an abused wife on the run) and, despite the circumstances and a lot of conveniently timed rainstorms, learn to love again.
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The big, glaring problem with Safe Haven, however — which boasts an impressive director (Lasse Hallström) and a few lively performances (Duhamel is charming in spite of the schlocky material) — is that it's filled with big, glaring plot holes. Riddled with illogic revolving around Katie's alcoholic, abusive husband (played by David Lyons) who's hot on her tail and the mysterious, kindly neighbor named Jo (Cobie Smulders) she befriends, Safe Haven plays like Sleeping With the Enemy-lite for most of its running time.
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That is, until the movie's beyond-absurd third act twist, which turns out to be both unintentionally hilarious and completely unnerving. Some moviegoers will, no doubt, be willing to buy that a woman could roll into a new town with nothing but the clothes on her back, get a job, buy a house, make a new best friend, frolic on the beach, and fall in love with a perfect-in-every-way widowed single dad in record time. But not even the most hopelessly romantic sap would find Katie and Alex's happy ending as anything other than completely ludicrous and a little bit disturbing.
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Another year, another Golden Globes. But though the awards have been handed out, the formalwear neatly tucked away, and the attending celebs are starting to recover from their hangovers, we still have some burning questions about the ceremony itself.
1. Why did Lena Dunham thank Chad Lowe?
The Girls creator and star had announced on Twitter that the next time she won an award she would right Hilary Swank’s wrong of 13 years ago: forgetting to thank her husband Chad Lowe when accepting her Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Boys Don’t Cry. So that’s exactly what Dunham did. However, she forgot to name-drop Lowe during her first Globe win last night, for Best Actress in a TV Comedy. Lowe immediately tweeted, “Congrats to @lenadunham on your Golden Globe win. But, seriously? You forget to thank me?! After all we've been through? I'm shocked.” Order was restored to the universe when Dunham did thank him after winning for Best Comedy Series. "I also promised myself that if I ever got this chance, I would thank Chad Lowe,” Dunham said. That prompted Lowe to respond, “Dearest Lena Dunham, you complete me” and “Now that I'm trending worldwide (finally) does that mean I don't have to give my daughters a bath or change their diapers anymore?”
2. Was Paul Rudd and Salma Hayek’s awkward presentation of Best Actor in a TV Drama due to technical difficulties?
Afraid so. Rudd and Hayek started off fine with a joke about the nominees, Bryan Cranston, Damien Lewis, Jon Hamm, Steve Buscemi, and Jeff Daniels. Hayek set up the punchline with, “They drink, they do drugs, they have a huge ego, and they are not to be trusted,” followed immediately by Rudd’s, “And that’s just their agents!” Okay, that kinda bombed since maybe agent-related humor is off-limits at awards shows. But it was better than what followed: silence. After their quip, Hayek and Rudd just stood there. It turns out the teleprompter did not display the names of the nominees they were to rattle off. Rudd tried to fill dead air by saying, “Hello, how’s everyone doing?” (Maybe if Tina Fey and Amy Poehler had been around more, they could have salvaged this awkward moment!) Finally, the video of the nominees started to roll, and Rudd and Hayek were spared. But that wasn’t the only glitch of the night. A strange buzz was heard over the speech from outgoing HFPA president Aida Takla O’Reilly, which is a shame because she was pretty funny. And on two different occasions the NBC producers’ countdown clock was heard after the broadcast had already resumed. Maybe the nominees weren’t the only ones drinking….
3. Who did Tarantino fist bump?
The Django Unchained director seemed all smug when he fist-bumped someone at his table after Amy Poehler called movie actors beautiful and TV actors “rat-faced.” It was like, “Look at me. I’m a movie director, and I only surround myself with the genetically gifted.” Definitely a faux pas. But its severity is lessened when you find out whom exactly he fist-bumped, since the recipient was unfortunately out of frame: Sofia Vergara. If she’s “rat-faced,” call me a fan of the Order Rodentia. Obviously, Tarantino was joking.
4. Was Savannah Guthrie’s red carpet dress the same as the one Hilary Swank wore to the 2005 Oscars?
We’ll let you decide for yourself.
5. Is this the first year that no broadcast network series won anything at the Golden Globes?
Yes. Call it another ominous milestone for the Big Four, but not a single broadcast network took him a Globe on Sunday. That marks a departure from last year when Modern Family won for Best TV Comedy. Even then, that was the only award a broadcast network received. This year, the drama categories were dominated by Showtime’s Homeland and PBS’ Downton Abbey, the comedy categories by HBO’s Girls and Showtime’s House of Lies, and the miniseries category by History’s Hatfields &amp; McCoys and HBO’s Game Change.
6. Were the TV Categories basically just a redo of the Emmys?
Almost entirely — except for the fact that the Television Academy hasn’t fully abandoned network TV just yet. Emmy is still hung up on Modern Family, and Julie Bowen and Eric Stonestreet won in September, with the series itself being honored as Best Comedy. And they also awarded Jon Cryer Best Actor in a Comedy. The only other alteration was that Julia Louis-Dreyfus won Best Actress in a Comedy for HBO’s Veep, but otherwise the awards are precisely the same.
7. How does Michael J. Fox’s son qualify as a "philanthropist"?
The Spin City alum's 23-year-old son, Sam Fox, was Mr. Golden Globe last night, which he meant he shared the duty of handing out the statuettes to the winners alongside Miss Golden Globe, Francesca Eastwood. (Mr. and Miss Golden Globe are traditionally the children of Hollywood A-Listers.) Fox the Younger was described on-air as a “philanthropist." So what exactly does he do? He works for a website called Farmers Web, which is a startup platform that assists small farmers in selling their goods to wholesale buyers like restaurants, so that they can stay competitive against corporate agriculture. As for the tangential burning question, “Can you be a 23-year-old philanthropist, unless you’re the child of a Hollywood star, politician, or business leader?” I think we all know the answer to that.
8. What’s up with Tommy Lee Jones’ Col. Sanders ‘stache?
There was quite a bit of odd facial hair on display at the Beverly Hilton. Bill Murray opted for the full walrus effect. Bryan Cranston’s Walter White goatee was well under way (meaning that the remaining episodes of Season 5 are about to go into production. Yay!). Idris Elba opted for a Burt Reynolds semi-handlebar. But the strangest bit of face whiskers had to be those worn by Tommy Lee Jones, with a mustache and a patch below his lips. Just when you thought you wouldn’t see anything follicle-related from Jones that was more unsettling than his wig in Lincoln! Not to worry, though. He isn’t about to enter the fried chicken racket. Jones has just wrapped shooting Luc Besson’s mob thriller Malavita (due Oct. 18) and he obviously just hasn’t wanted to get a shave yet.
9. Um, why doesn’t Maggie Smith ever show up for awards shows?
She’s never made a public statement about why she's almost always a no-show, but the most likely reason is that she’s just really, really busy. If not on TV or in movies, the 78-year-old is still very frequently to be found on the British stage. In fact, her last appearance at any awards ceremony was at the 2002 BAFTAs when she presented a career achievement honor to Judi Dench. The last time she accepted an award in person in the United States? In 1979, when she won her second Oscar, as Best Supporting Actress for the film California Suite.
10. Was Damien Francisco robbed of the Globe for Best Actor in a TV Movie or Miniseries for Dog President?
Yes, yes, a thousand times yes! The miniseries’ answer to Johnny Depp was up for his stirring turn in Dog President, which we assume is another Quality with a Capital Q HBO production from the makers of Warm Springs. But Francisco lost to Kevin Costner for Hatfields &amp; McCoys. Maybe he'll get another shot if Dog President spinoff Canine-in-Chief ever goes into production.
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If there's a cinematic alchemy award to be given this year director Bill Condon deserves to take it home after magically turning the tedious Twilight franchise into entertainment gold. 2011's Part 1 was a horror camp romp that turned the supernatural love triangle — the naval gazing trio of Bella Edward and Jacob — on its head. Breaking Dawn - Part 2 continues the madcap exploration of a world populated by vampires and werewolves mining even more comedy thrills and genuine character moments out of conceit than ever before. The film occasionally sidesteps back into Edward and Bella's meandering romance (an evident hurdle of author Stephenie Meyer's source material) but the duller moments are overshadowed by the movie's nimble pace and playful attitude. Breaking Dawn - Part 2 will elicit laughs aplenty — but thankfully they're all on purpose.
Part 2 picks up immediately following the events of the first film Bella (Kristen Stewart) having been turned into a vampire by Edward (Robert Pattinson) to save her life after the torturous delivery of her half-human half-vampire child Renesmee. She awakes to discover super senses heightened agility increased strength… and a thirst for blood. One dead cougar later Bella and the gang are able to focus on the real troubles ahead: Renesmee is rapidly growing (think Jack) and vampiric overlords The Volturi perceive her a threat to vampiric secrecy. Knowing the Volturi will travel to Forks WA to kill the young girl (a 10-year-old just a month after being born) The Cullens amass an army of bloodsucking friends to end the oppression once and for all.
Packed with an absurd amount of backstory and mythology-twisting plot points (some vampires can shoot lightning now?) Condon and series screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg mine revel in the beefed up ensemble of Breaking Dawn - Part 2 and thanks to a wildly funny cast it never feels like pointless deviation. Along with the usual suspects Lee Pace adds swagger to the series as a grungy alt-rock vampire Noel Fisher appears as a hilarious over-the-top battle-ready Russian coven member and Michael Sheen returns has Volturi head honcho Aro and steels the show. Flamboyant diabolical and a steady stream of maniacal laughter Sheen owns Condon's high camp vision for Twilight and he lights up the screen. There are a few throw away nations of vampires — the oddly stereotypical Egyptian and Amazonians sects are there mostly there to off-set the extreme whiteness — but the actors involved bring liveliness to a franchise known for being soulless. Even Stewart Pattinson and Taylor Lautner give personal bests in this installment — a scene between Bella and her dad Charlie (Billy Burke) is genuinely heartfelt while Jacob's overprotective hero schtick finally lands.
Whereas Breaking Dawn - Part 1 stuck mostly to the personal story relying on the intimate moments as Bella and Edward took the big plunge into marriage and sex Part 2 paints with broader strokes and Condon has a ball. Delving into the history of the vampires and the vampire world outside Forks is Pandora's Box for the director. One scene where we learn why kids scare the heck of the Volturi captures a scope of medieval epics — along with the bloodshed. Twilight might be known for its sexual moments but Breaking Dawn - Part 2 will go down for its abundance of decapitations. The big set piece in the finale is something to behold both in the craftsmanship of the spectacle and in its bizarre nature.
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 had the audience hooting hollering and even gasping as it twisted and turned to the final moments. There's little doubt that even the biggest naysayer of the franchise would do the same. No irony here: the conclusion of Twilight is a blast.

It's tidbits time, America! And there's loads to learn, know, see, and read on this, the day after Halloween. Spooky, scary! It's like a werewolf bar mitzvah, but not really. Let's get to reading, shall we?
Fairly Legal Will Not Get Third Season: USA has decided to not renew sophomore Fairly Legal after attempts at revamping the series. Network heads gave the show a second-season renewal based on the likability of the show's star, Sarah Shahi, but stressed that the show needed to improve. After no results, even with a showrunner change and casting tweaks on the show, the series ended its second season down 1 million viewers—from 3.5 million viewers to 2.5 million—and that was something USA just couldn't ignore. Don't worry too much about Shahi, though: she's already booked a reoccurring gig on Chicago Fire. And USA is about to renew Burn Notice for a seventh season, so everyone is doing just fine. [Deadline]
It's Seventh Heaven on Scandal: Remember Stephen Collins, the priestly dad from the popular family-friendliest show ever, Seventh Heaven? Well apparently he's ready to have himself a bit of a Scandal, as he's recently lined himself up a guest-starring role on the show as a reporter in an upcoming Season 2 episode. [TVLine]
ABC Relocating with Hollywood &amp; Vines: ABC has its eyes set on another, Revenge-esque show. The network has given a script order to Hollywood &amp; Vines, a murder-mystery set in (duh) Hollywood, from writer/director Michael Tolkin and Revenge's current producers Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey. The new soapy drama series will revolve around three sisters from a dynastic Hollywood family. Their lives are forever changed when they all discover that they're connected to an A-list actress who turns up dead in a pool. Murder! Intrigue! Mystery! Drama! [THR]
Hello Ladies, Says HBO: HBO has given an eight-episode series order to co-writer/director/star Stephen Merchant's comedy pilot, Hello Ladies. The project, co-written with former The Office writer/producers Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, stars Merchant as an awkward and out-of-touch Englishman on a quest to find the woman of his dreams in Los Angeles—someone he imagines lives in glamorous world of beautiful people he so desperately wants to infiltrate. The pilot co-starred Christine Woods, Nate Torrence and Kevin Weisman. [Deadline]
Brendan Fraser Is No Longer a Legends: Well, that was quick. After recently announcing he would be starring in the project, Brendan Fraser has bowed out of the TNT series. Citing creative differences with showrunner Howard Gordon about the direction of his character, a deep-cover operative named Martin Odum—who has an apparently uncanny ability to transform himself into a different person for each job (Dollhouse, anyone?)—the exit is being described as an amicable one. [Variety]
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So, Darren Aronofsky called dibs on Noah. Alex Proyas is doing Adam and Eve (and Satan! Don't forget Satan!) with Paradise Lost. The Ten Commandments should never be reattempted, and Mel Gibson owns the rights to pretty much everything in the New Testament. Any other good biblical stories left?
Here's one: The story David and Goliath. It's the first underdog story—it's practically Rudy!
Film producers Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey are on the same page: David &amp; Goliath needs to be made. And for a story like this—one so familiar to society—one of the most important elements is cating. So who, pray tell, can play the lead characters?
Goliath certainly brings to mind a specific type of actor. Specifically, large. A mountain of a man. A human boulder. An immovable stone. Uh, a big...rock. Bingo. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is being sought to play the hulking villain in Bowen and Godfrey's upcoming production. That works pretty well. So can we hope for an equally fitting David?
Well, as it turns out, the name being looked at for David is Taylor Lautner, who is no slouch himself in the physique department. It may seem a little contradictory to the theme of the story to cast a muscular actor in the role as the diminutive David. Perhaps it will be. But perhaps we are meant to take the roles of "large" and "small," "strong" and "weak" less literally. David represents the meek, the everyman. Goliath: the powerful, the tyrannical. So it shouldn't matter if David could also handle a triathalon on an off day. All that matters is that we believe in justice.
That's the moral, right? Justice? Maybe that's "Jonah and the Whale"... Oh, they should make that movie too!
Source: Indiewire

Screenwriter Jamie Linden has been blessed with an extraordinary cast for his directorial debut, the ensemble drama Ten Year. In fact, he seems to be picking prime talent from his past cinematic endeavors. Starting with just Channing Tatum (who also will produce the picture) and wife Jenna Dewan, the cast has grown to include a slew of young stars, including Chris Pine, Anna Faris, Brian Geraghty, Anthony Mackie, Kate Mara, Chris Pratt, Justin Long and Scott Porter (Mackie, Mara, Porter, Tatum and Geraghty all appeared in either Dear John or We Are Marshall, both which Linden penned).
Now The Hollywood Reporter says that Rosario Dawson and Lynn Collins have signed up to work on the film as well, rounding out the cast as it prepares to shoot early next year. The story focuses on a group of friends who reunite ten years after their high-school graduation. Sounds a bit like The Big Chill, which can't hurt it's potential to succeed, but I'd like to know a little bit more about where the plot will go before I sing any praises.
Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey of Temple Hill are producing along with Tatum and his 33andOut Prods. partner Reid Carolin. The film shoots in New Mexico and all parties are eying a late 2011 release, so keep an eye out for this one.
Source: THR

Count Dear John star Channing Tatum among the many actors who have successfully added the title "producer" to their resume: according to The Hollywood Reporter, the actor is working with screenwriter Jamie Linden (We Are Marshall) and producers Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey on Ten Year, an ensemble drama that centers on a group of old high school friends reuniting for their ten year reunion.
Tatum has been involved with the project's development for some time through his 33andOut Productions with partner Reid Carolin, even helping write the film's characters with specific friends in mind - including Anna Faris, Chris Pratt, Chris Pine, Scott Porter, and Tatum's wife, Jenna Dewan (Step Up). Though none of the actors are fully committed yet, that potential cast list seems a pretty good indication that we're going to be looking at a lot of ex-jocks and ex-cheerleaders in this indie drama - no wimpy Jay Baruchel-type ex-chess team nerds here.
Ten Year will be the second time Tatum has worked with writer Jamie Linden, who also penned Tatum's Dear John. This time around, Linden is also set to direct. Though production can't move ahead until all of Tatum's cast picks are able to confirm their availability, he expects lensing to begin sometime in November.
Source: THR

Twilight producer Wyck Godfrey and his business partner Marty Bowen have struck a deal to move ahead with making a family film about Babar, an elephant that leaves the jungle for the big city, according to Deadline.com.
The adaptation is said to be a blend of live-action and CG technology.
The original show made its debut in the U.S. in 1989 and ran for six seasons.